We don’t know what’s happening beyond:

^the privacy settings used to inform Gemini should be openly available, but they aren't, which means the AI is either "hallucinating (lying)" or some internal systems on Google's servers are outright malfunctioning*

Many AI systems do use user interactions as part of training data. So at most you might guess those documents aren’t directly being used for training AND they will never include conversations in training data but you don’t know.

>which means the AI is either "hallucinating (lying)" or some internal systems on Google's servers are outright malfunctioning*

I'm not sure how that is implied.

>Many AI systems do use user interactions as part of training data.

There is no evidence of that being the case here, and none of the mainstream AIs do that yet. They'd be much more useful if they did.

>So at most you might guess those documents aren’t directly being used for training

Or we can actually know that, because that's the case.

>AND they will never include conversations in training data but you don’t know.

Conversations aren't part of this discussion at all, so I'm not sure what you're trying to imply, but it's wrong.

> Conversations aren't part of this discussion at all

People only know about it because information from these documents is showing up in conversations.

It’s unclear which systems have access and why, but at a minimum Google is showing the data. If things are “misconfigured” or even intentionally set up like this then any assumptions about what’s private goes out the window.